Name These Buildings!

McBane · #1 Posted **Apr 23, 2007, 5:18 PM**

I need some help naming the following buildings with their respective city's and country's (a contest for work):

These ones I already know:

1. ?
2. Chrysler Building - NYC, USA
3. Petronas Towers - Kuala Lampor, Malaysia
4. ------------------ I know it's in Paris, right?
5. ?
6. ?
7. Tapei 101 - Taipei, Taiwan
8. Mary St. Axe (is that correct?), London, UK
9. Transamerica Pyramid - San Fran, USA
10. ?

Your help is greatly appreciated!

LyndaleHoosier · #2 Posted **Apr 23, 2007, 5:34 PM**

4. La Defense (I believe)
5. It's in Chicago and I believe it's a city/county building, but someone on here will know.

headcase · #3 Posted **Apr 23, 2007, 6:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by LyndaleHoosier

4. La Defense (I believe)
5. It's in Chicago and I believe it's a city/county building, but someone on here will know.

Yes it is in Chicago, that was formally know as the Smurfit-Stone building..

SSDD

DecoJim · #4 Posted **Apr 23, 2007, 6:28 PM**

1. Shanghai's Oriental Pearl TV Tower
6. New York Stock Exchange? (hard to tell at the scale of this image)
8. Swiss Re Tower, London
10. Yokohama Landmark Tower

-GR2NY- · #5 Posted **Apr 23, 2007, 6:49 PM**

^ ^ Yeh these were pretty easy. I think #6 is in san francisco, it's one of the few taller buildings you could get with simcity 2 i beleive.

KevinFromTexas · #6 Posted **Apr 23, 2007, 6:56 PM**

Kind of small, but here goes. Click on the building names to see them at Emporis.com.

1 - Oriental Pearl TV Tower - Shanghai, China
2 - Chrysler Building - New York, USA
3 - Petronas Towers - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
4 - La Grande Arche - Puteaux, France, located in La Defense which is a commercial distrct that actually spans several towns. It's well known as being in Paris, though, geographically it isn't.
5 - Smurfit-Stone Building - Chicago, USA
6 - New York Stock Exchange - New York, USA
7 - Taipei 101 - Taipei, Taiwan
8 - 30 St. Mary Axe - London, England
9 - Transamerica Pyramid - San Francisco, USA
10 - Yokohama Landmark Tower - Yokohama, Japan

McBane · #7 Posted **Apr 23, 2007, 7:18 PM**

Thank you all very much.

(from the e-mail I got today):
We would also like to involve everyone in these events. So please take a few moments to have a look at the competition below, as you could be the lucky winner of 2 return flights to either New York or London or Hong Kong. (A small hint - if you search hard enough on FT.com, you might be able to find the answers!)

I hope I win.